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MONTH: October 2006

Animal obituaries

 

Norman, 15, the pet pig for whom the White Pig Bed & Breakfast vegan retreat in Schuyler, Virginia, was named, died on September 18, 2006.

 

Sher Khan, 22, the oldest hybrid African/Asiatic lion in India, died on September 24 at the Tata Steel Zoological Park in Jamshedpur. The Central Zoo Authority in December 2004 ordered that all of the 300 hybrid lions in Indian zoos should be sterilized, to keep the captive Asiatic lion population genetically distinct. The Chatbir Zoo in Punjab had bred nearly 100 hybrid lions.

 

Murphy, 4, the North Carolina Zoo groundhog "weather forecaster," brought to the zoo wildlife rehabilitation center in May 2002, died on September 17, 2006.

 

Rupert, a 15-to-18-year-old Australian black swan "known for chasing lifeguards and boaters" at Newport Beach, California, "whose love affair with a younger mate captivated the beach community," according to Associated Press writer Christina Almeida, was killed on September 13, 2006 when hit by an Orange County Harbor Patrol boat that was rushing to recover floating human remains. His mate Pearl was killed by an oil slick in 2002.

 

Juliet, a carriage horse at Central Park in New York City since 1989, collapsed and died on September 15, 2006. Anti-carriage horse industry demonstrators memorialized her on September 21.

 

Enshala, 14, a Sumatran tiger, escaped from her quarters at the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, Florida, at closing time on August 22, 2006. Zoo president Lex Salisbury shot her after a tranquilizer dart failed to drop her, putting zoo vet David Murphy in potential jeopardy. Enshala had begun climbing a seven-foot wall, approaching a public area, when Salisbury fired.

 

Bonnie, a sacred white buffalo who lived at the Love Animal House in Thailand, fell into an old well on August 25, 2006, and died from a broken neck. Her remains were reportedly stolen, butchered, and eaten that night in a nearby village.

 

Lucy, 46, a elephant captured in Africa, sold to the Milwaukee County Zoo in 1962, was euthanized on September 1.